This page explains what cookies this website uses, what they are for, and how to change your mind at any time.
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep. It is how a site remembers something between one page and the next.
We set nothing until you choose
The first time you come here you will see a bar at the bottom of the page asking whether we can count your visit. Until you answer it, this website places no cookies on your device at all, and nothing is sent to anybody else.
That is the whole point of the bar. It is not a notice telling you what has already happened — it is a question asked beforehand.
The one cookie we set ourselves
When you answer, we store your answer in a cookie called bp_consent. It lasts a year, it holds nothing but a yes or a no, and it does not identify you. It exists so that we do not ask you the same question on every page.
If you say yes: Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to see which pages people find useful, so we can improve the ones they do not. It tells us things like which pages are read most, whether people arrive from a search or a link, and whether they are on a phone or a computer.
Google Analytics sets its own cookies, whose names begin _ga, and they can last up to two years. The information collected is sent to Google, who process it for us. It does not tell us your name, your address, or who you are, and we do not use it to try to work that out.
If you would like to know more about how Google uses this information, their own explanation is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites (opens in a new tab).
If you say no
Nothing from Google is loaded, on that visit or on any other. We remember that you said no and we do not ask again.
Changing your mind
You can change your answer whenever you like, and you do not have to give a reason.
Turning cookies off in your browser
Every modern browser lets you block or delete cookies for a particular website or for all of them. It is usually under Settings, then Privacy. Doing that will also clear the cookie that remembers your answer, so you will be asked again the next time you visit.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you would like to know what we hold, please get in touch and we will answer.